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Beef prices are at record highs and although good, there is
industry uncertainty about the real ramifications for beef businesses and what
we should do going forward.

In this webinar John Francis, farm business consultant
at Holmes Sackett, demonstrates the effect of high beef prices on beef herd
profitability and beef trading margins. He will also illustrate some key issues
for beef businesses looking at capitalizing on the high prices.

John will also take a look at the flip side to good prices.
This webinar will illustrate the tough lessons learnt by the prime lamb
industry and demonstrate the practical application of 'cost of production'
calculators to help beef producers maintain profitable margins.

Feed utilisation is a key driver of beef herd profitability.
John Francis, farm business consultant at Holmes Sackett, has teased out how to
make pasture growth go further for beef herds.

At this webinar John presents robust
recommendations for improving pasture utilisation in beef production systems,
back up with real data from Holmes Sackett’s extensive beef benchmarking
service. John also covers strategies to mitigate risk in high pasture
utilisation systems through pasture budgeting and the use of soil and pasture
monitoring tools.

In any given market, region or season some beef producers
consistently perform better than their counterparts – why and by how much? This
is the subject that John Francis, farm business consultant at Holmes Sackett, discusses in this webinar.

With 17 years of Holmes Sackett’s beef benchmarking data to
draw on, John illustrates the large differences in profitability
between average producers and the best over the long term. He also
breaks down what the best have been doing in order to stay ahead of the pack.
This webinar is packed full of first class information and evidence based
recommendations relevant to your beef business.

Pasture improvement is a big cost to beef grazing
businesses, and producers rarely commence their next round of pasture
improvements with 100% confidence their money is being well spent. Moreover,
it’s hard to determine the cost of pasture improvement because most of them are
not cash costs!

John Francis, farm business consultant at Holmes Sackett,
will teach participants in this webinar the true cost of pasture improvement,
and help develop an understanding of whether that is where the businesses next
buck needs to be spent. John also touches on the principals of on-farm
investment, and demonstrates how lateral thinking and investment appraisal
within the business helps beef business owners better reinvest in the
business for higher returns.

Labour costs are one of the top two costs to beef
businesses. Top beef producers know this and use the labour efficiency lever to
improve the profitability of their businesses. Participants of this webinar will
be surprised at just how far the labour efficiency benchmark is being pushed in
the beef industry.

In this webinar farm business consultant John Francis providings a comprehensive look into the labour efficiency of beef
businesses. John demonstrates the different methods of measuring labour
efficiency and their relevance. He draws on 17 years of Holmes
Sackett’s beef benchmarking data to illustrate how labour efficient the best
are, and what strategies they have in place to achieve these levels of labour
efficiency.

The remaining More Beef from Pastures webinars will be hosted at the completion of the series on MLA's website. Those who have registered will be informed via email once they are ready to be accessed. Alternatively, contact MLA or Holmes Sackett to gain access to the remaining webinars.